I haven't bought anything for a while but I got a tip that this booklet was on Ebay for 10 Euros so I snapped it up. It came with three letters and is from the 'Staatlicher Aufbaulehrgang Ermland' boarding school in Mehlsack (now Pieniezno in Poland). Very interesting book containing details on training, personnel and life at the school in general.
The Staatlicher Aufbaulehrgang was a programme designed to prepare suitable candidates for teacher-training at higher training colleges (Hochschulen der Lehrerbildung) and the pupils spent 4 years at the school with the aim of achieving the 'Abitur' (educational standard which was a prerequisite for university attendance). The school in Mehlsack was originally designated as 'Staatlicher Aufbaulehrgang Ermland' and was housed in a part of the monastery in Mehlsack from 1.4.1938.
In 1940 (effective in 1941) Hitler ordered the creation of the Lehrerbildungsanstalten and the school was redesignated as LBA Mehlsack (it is shown in the lists here as school number 35). The purpose of these new schools was to consolidate teacher-training and there were sometimes difficulties with the provision of sufficient accommodation. This situation is described in one of the letters which came with the book and the writer, Abteilungsführer Märker, describes how the monks were all arrested and expelled from the monastery in April 1941. It seems fairly clear that the monks were simply in the way and that the Gestapo had to find a way of getting rid of them so that the Lehrerbildungsanstalt could have access to the parts of the monastery previously used by the monks.
In picture 1 you can see a 1938 photograph of students marching past the main entrance. Above the windows of the second floor you can see the original monastery motto 'Gehet hin in alle Welt' which is a shortened version of Matthew 28:19 'Gehet hin in alle Welt und lehret alle Völker und taufet sie im Namen des Vaters und des Sohnes und des heiligen Geistes' (..go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit).
This was removed and replaced with 'Staatl. Aufbaulehrgang Ermland' as you can see in the second picture which shows the complete school on parade.
The school appears to have remained active until 1944/45.
The remaining photos show the building as it looks today. It is now known as 'Muzeum Misyjno-Etnograficznego seminarium Ksiezy Werbistów' (The Museum of Ethnology and Mission of the major seminary in Pieniezno).
The Staatlicher Aufbaulehrgang was a programme designed to prepare suitable candidates for teacher-training at higher training colleges (Hochschulen der Lehrerbildung) and the pupils spent 4 years at the school with the aim of achieving the 'Abitur' (educational standard which was a prerequisite for university attendance). The school in Mehlsack was originally designated as 'Staatlicher Aufbaulehrgang Ermland' and was housed in a part of the monastery in Mehlsack from 1.4.1938.
In 1940 (effective in 1941) Hitler ordered the creation of the Lehrerbildungsanstalten and the school was redesignated as LBA Mehlsack (it is shown in the lists here as school number 35). The purpose of these new schools was to consolidate teacher-training and there were sometimes difficulties with the provision of sufficient accommodation. This situation is described in one of the letters which came with the book and the writer, Abteilungsführer Märker, describes how the monks were all arrested and expelled from the monastery in April 1941. It seems fairly clear that the monks were simply in the way and that the Gestapo had to find a way of getting rid of them so that the Lehrerbildungsanstalt could have access to the parts of the monastery previously used by the monks.
In picture 1 you can see a 1938 photograph of students marching past the main entrance. Above the windows of the second floor you can see the original monastery motto 'Gehet hin in alle Welt' which is a shortened version of Matthew 28:19 'Gehet hin in alle Welt und lehret alle Völker und taufet sie im Namen des Vaters und des Sohnes und des heiligen Geistes' (..go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit).
This was removed and replaced with 'Staatl. Aufbaulehrgang Ermland' as you can see in the second picture which shows the complete school on parade.
The school appears to have remained active until 1944/45.
The remaining photos show the building as it looks today. It is now known as 'Muzeum Misyjno-Etnograficznego seminarium Ksiezy Werbistów' (The Museum of Ethnology and Mission of the major seminary in Pieniezno).
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